"If it's any comfort, you didn't stay in Kansas all that long," he answers, watching her face instead of her hands. All those damn IDs - their contacts really came through for them, at a time when it felt like the whole world was closing in. Maybe he'll let her see his, later, the buzz cut and the bleached tips and the awful slicked-back hair that made him look like he dipped his head in oil. "It was an 'or something' - not witness protection."